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1. Master in Urban Design Lecture 1

2. Difference between Urban Design and Urban Planning There are very  distinct differences .  Urban planners work with  policies that shape urban development.  For example, an urban planner can write policy recommendations for mass transit infrastructure, business development strategies for economic development & job creation, or land use plans for transit-oriented development.  Urban designers work with the  physical form of cities . For example, an urban designer can any day be working on designing streetscapes and major transportation corridors; parks, open spaces, waterfronts, and plazas; architectural design guidelines for neighborhoods & downtowns.

3. What is Urban Design? Urban design is concerned with the arrangement, appearance and function of our suburbs, towns and cities. It is both a process and an outcome of creating localities in which people live, engage with each other, and engage with the physical place around them. Urban design involves many different disciplines including planning, development, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, economics, law and finance, among others. Urban design operates at many scales, from the macro scale of the urban structure (planning, zoning, transport and infrastructure networks) to the micro scale of street furniture and lighting. When fully integrated into policy and planning systems, urban design can be used to inform land use planning, infrastructure, built form and even the socio-demographic mix of a place. Urban design can significantly influence the economic, environmental, social and cultural outcomes of a place.

4. Urban design can influence the  economic  success and socio-economic composition of a locality—whether it encourages local businesses and entrepreneurship; whether it attracts people to live there; whether the costs of housing and travel are affordable; and whether access to job opportunities, facilities and services are equitable. Urban design determines the physical scale, space and ambience of a place and establishes the built and natural forms within which individual buildings and infrastructure are sited. As such, it affects the balance between natural ecosystems and built environments, and their  sustainability  outcomes. Urban design can influence  health  and the  social and cultural  impacts of a locality: how people interact with each other, how they move around, and how they use a place. Although urban design is often delivered as a specific ‘project’, it is in fact a long-term process that continues to evolve over time. It is this layering of building and infrastructure types, natural ecosystems, communities and cultures that gives places their unique characteristics and identities. What is Urban Design?

5. List of Books for reference - Broadbent, Geoffrey. Emerging Concepts of urban Design Bacon, Edmund, N. Design of Cities Gosling, David & Maitland, Barry, Concepts of Urban design Morris, Anthony, J.E. History of Urban Form Kostof , Spiro, The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History Kostof , Spiro, City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings through History